I am considering using db4o as the data store on a public facing website. The question comes with licensing... My understanding is that if you are an "end user" you can freely use the code. Is a website end user or distribution? MySQL is licensed under GPLv2 and people use it all the time as a backend data store. Any lawyers out t...
Following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3531490/examples-of-zend-framework-based-apps I'd like to ask: Do you know any open source projects using Doctrine ORM, good for reference purposes? What I recall: ZFPlanet Sympal (Symfony based CMS) ...
I'm writing an image file uploader for android for my favorite image gallery software and it uses FTP. I've started using Apache-Commons Net FTP as my ftp library based on past stack overflow questions. Like so: FTPClient ftp = new FTPClient(); try{ ftp.connect(host); Log.i(TAG,"we connected"); if(!ftp.login(user,pass)){ ftp.l...
I'm looking for a free (FOSS) speech recognition engine that I can use with my PHP-based GPL software. Any suggestions what are some of the best quality ones out there? ...
I was looking at ClamAV and checked it out. I want to help develop (or learn) on writing Antivirus application. I would like to know if there are more than one (ClamAV) opensource antivirus out there and how would you suggest to fork from an opensource if I wanted to make myself a one. ...
Hi, Where can i find those and learn about a modern way to start off a project from scratch or any other recommended book? ...
Hey Hivemind.. I Am currently looking at building an Open Source People Intelligence Application (Fancy Word for a phone book) for my church.. It'll basically be a database system where you can view info on a person and automate actions like send a "facebook message to these people on this date", "Generate a consent form for this perso...
Hi there, i've recently been looking at PHPMotion in order to allow me to upload and display videos on my site. I wanted to add the facility to incorporate videos from youtube, however the plug ins and application itself seem somewhat bug ridden currently.. I realised that in essence all i require is a method to index and display video...
Can you use GPL code on a commercial website? Do you have to supply a link to the source code for that software? Does it violate the GPL license if you use non-GPL open source software with the GPL software? Cheers. ...
Hi folks, I'm trying to learn Django. And need something to go beyond Hello world and Polls tutorial. Could you please recomend any real project written in Django? Tried to search, but found not many. Especialy interested in usage of buildout. ...
I'm using the following logic to add a custom handler to a form that's defined by another module. I'm trying to do additional processing on the form data. function my_module_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) { if ($form_id == 'my_form') { $form['#submit'][] = 'my_additional_submit_handler'; } } Of course I define my o...
Currently there exist package like gonzui (example of the implementation here) for doing source code search. Is there a similar package that does the same thing except for simple file search. Basically I have two list of files for file type A and file type B. When the user type a word in the search box, all files (in "gz" format) wit...
I have recently published a project that I was working on to CodePlex, with the approval of my employer. This project was mostly done for the needs of the company, but I'm sure this thing can be of value to other programmers outside the company which was my primary motivation to publish it. I'm reluctant to specify which project it is, ...
Are there any open source libraries (preferably python) that will convert a kml file to an image file? I have an open source web-based application that allows users to draw shapes on a Google Earth Map, and I would like to provide them with a pdf that contains their map with the shapes that they have drawn. Right now the users are ...
Hello everyone! I am experimenting with different open source projects just to see which one I can work with since I am a beginner. Of course, many projects have different dependencies and programs that you must install. I want to keep things organized and I don't want to pollute my main windows account, since I use this machine for ever...
can any one indicate a asp.net open source project based on xsl? Thanx. ...
It's clear that Apple has an OpenCL implementation based on Clang and LLVM. There's also a talk by an Apple Engineer about what it took to get OpenCL going on LLVM here However, is the code for this implementation available under some sort of open-source license or is this closed source software? If the code hasn't been released, anyo...
Until now I have only used git packages with gem: gem install <package> Haven't contributed to correcting things to git-hub. I wonder how you all do it? Eg. when I have installed the gem package, should I manually create a folder where I do: git clone <repo> Then when I find the gem package behaving strangely, I just correct the ...
I have been wondering why so many coders have bad organization in their documents. I think I know why. As usual it has to do with standardization. If no standard it out there, everyone has to reinvent the wheel all the time. So I upload a gem at RubyGems.org. But that was only 1/4 of it all. I have to write a tutorial for it, making...
I apologize if this question is a little broad. Hopefully your answers will help me narrow it down to more meaningful questions. I'm experienced in software engineering and had a recent conversation with a friend who suggested that electrical engineering is very software driven these days. I'm trying to improve my understanding of th...